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THE PATIO
And Filled with people family and folk Lively chatter laughter Lively joke We gathered and garnered As life-light snuck by Decades now...
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10 hours ago1 min read


HOMEOSTASIS
Nature seeks homeostasis Peace tranquility balance Everything else is SNS* survival Be quiet Be still Seek homeostasis Learn the ways of...
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6 days ago1 min read


SOFTEN YOUR HEART
I am sooo so very pleased with my latest eBook which hit today on Amazon/Kindle. Download it to your Iphone at Amazon/Kindle. You’ll love...
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Oct 51 min read


MY STONEHENGE
Come sit a spell We’ll light it up See wryly spirts appear Roast some dogs Maby some mellows There’s magic in the sphere And here they...
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Oct 21 min read


WHEREVERCANIGO?
WHEREVERCANIGO? Where ever can I go Where no one would ever me know There is no place to hide Except inside tom tenbrunsel Poet Laureate...
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Oct 11 min read


ROUTINES
*Shirley’s Last Quilt It’s our routines that get us thru life The batter is barren without a routine. Without habit there is chaos...
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Sep 282 min read


LITTLE DUTCH GIRLS
My Grandmother ‘Mammah’ made these “Little Dutch Girl” appliqué dish cloths out of cotton flower sacks many many moons ago. My mom handed...
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Sep 251 min read


Ode to Jaylan
Your future is bright Follow your star You’ll be alright You are blessed with a caring kindness And vibrant personality...
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Sep 231 min read


FORK IT!
*painting compliments of the the Art Institute in Chicago If you are there on the trail Fork it Most poets have written about it Frost,...
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Sep 221 min read


GRIEVE
The Grieving Tree Along the BlueRidge Parkway Grieve if you must you must! A lost or a loss to be Any loss GRIEVE! It’s human nature...
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Sep 171 min read


THE BANJO
*Caption: pure joy The banjo comes alive Under the master’s pick and strum Plunk a little Plink a little Plickidy plunkidy Slip and slide...
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Sep 151 min read


THE WAY
There is the right way And the wrong way Anyway The highway Or the One Way Chose wisely tom tenbrunsel A Carl Sandburg Writer *Photo by...
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Sep 101 min read


A WOKE INTRUSION
*Carpetbagger on the Move” self portrait by Lawrence Robert Pierson Floersh High upon Appalachian hill Socked a ways away back in Of off...
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Sep 12 min read


TOXIC
It’s toxic What? Everything Up here in Helena City Rains came Winds came More rain More wind A hurricane So far inland Helena Took...
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Aug 281 min read


The Hypocritical Oath
Hypocrite hypocrate Hippocrate Hippocrates Hipocratic Oath Standard Oil Rockefeller Big Pharma Payola Med Schools Docs become pill...
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Aug 261 min read


REALITY
*photo from Visitors Center at the Carl Sandburg Estate in Flat Rock , North Carolina I’m looking for resolution To the mystery of...
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Aug 261 min read


THE RIVER
Photo by RalstonFoxSmith Studios I am the living River Twist and flowing Oft from sources unknown I was here when you were born, River’s...
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Aug 251 min read


My Tabula Rosa
Out my hospital window The sky entertains me Every changing Flowing floating endless by Forging forward Urging myself to mend and repair...
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Aug 211 min read


AWARE
I’m aware Of some thing Some body Some one Watching me In sleep And the Spirit Moves me To rise And share For there’s not a moment To...
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Aug 201 min read


BE THE DOG
*photo by Erin Secretarski Studios The dog waits and waits With concerned worry Watching at the window For its master to come back home...
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Aug 161 min read
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